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Elizabeth
offers . . .
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energy
balancing/massage sessions 1-1/2 hour
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doula services
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pregnancy massage and support
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yoga
sessions and personal yoga practice design
Review Elizabeth's Doula Contract
References available upon
request.
Doulas of North
America
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Elizabeth
has been a doula for several years. She combines her work as
a massage therapist with energy balancing and yoga
principles to help women and their partners have a positive
birth experience.
Doula
is a Greek word meaning a
woman who serves. She is usually older, has experienced
childbirth herself, and now accompanies a younger woman in
labor to help insure a positive and transformative birth
experience. The pregnant woman's needs are the doula's
priority. A doula works for the client, not a care provider
or hospital. A doula does not perform clinical tasks such as
blood pressure or fetal heart rate monitoring; she does
provide physical, emotional, and educational support for
communication with the medical staff.
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Elizabeth’s
doula
philosophy
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Birth has become
more of a medical procedure than an experience of
trusting the body's natural process.
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Elizabeth believes
labor and birth is a sacred time for a woman, a
transition from being an individual to becoming a
mother
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Elizabeth believes
it takes a brave woman to have a natural birth and a
brave woman to have an epidural. They are different
experiences. Every woman should have a positive
experience
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Elizabeth’s
doula
philosophy
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Elizabeth helps a
woman prepare herself
physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually
to trust the process of birth. It will be perfect as
it should be.
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Elizabeth works
with the doctor and nurses of your choice in a team
effort to enhance a positive birth experience.
Maintaining a peaceful and positive atmosphere
around the laboring woman enhances the birth
process.
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As a doula
Elizabeth helps a woman make decisions by providing
information and clarifying choices; she does not
make decisions for a woman and her partner.
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Massage, energy balancing, breath work, and yoga principles are
tools to become body conscious.
more about a
consious body . . .
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